Wildfire smoke is made of particles large enough to scatter away blue light and let red, orange and yellow pass through, and that same physics turned the sky over an evacuation near Toledo the color of an old photograph

When wildfire smoke turns the sky apocalyptic shades of red and gold, it's not the flames doing the coloring—it's physics playing a trick with light. The post Wildfire smoke is made of particles large enough to scatter away blue light and let red, orange and yellow pass through, and that same physics turned the sky over an evacuation near Toledo the color of an old photograph appeared first on Space Daily .